Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree, Grows In Brooklyn (20th Century-Fox), coming from a big Hollywood studio, is man-bites-dog news. Instead of sweetening up Betty Smith's exuberant best-seller and furnishing ten sure laughs for every carefully shock-absorbed tear, such ex-New Yorkers as Tess Slesinger, one of the writers, and Elia Kazan, the director, have turned it into a sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly...
...moment when the Communist revolution was most successful. If it suited his present purposes, Stalin might have reminded his critics that he was the author of Russia's two official volumes of orthodox dogma: The History of the Communist Party and Leninism. Leninism is a best-seller (3,000,000 copies were sold a week after publication...
...write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots of people buy?" she demands. "My God, there's no point in writing if you don't sell your stuff." Of current writers, she most admires Charles Jackson for The Lost Weekend...
...Best-Seller. The Prophet sold only 1,100 copies in the first year. Then it began to go. Twenty years later its overall sales totaled 300,000. Last year it was Knopf's next best seller (60,000 copies) to John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Since Gibran's death a committee of 40 Bsherri townspeople has collected his sizable royal ties, devoting them to charity. (One royalty check came back endorsed by all 40.) Unable to pay them because of the war, Knopf has accumulated $20,000 for the committee...
...practical," Judge Adlow asserted. "Why go to a book-seller or the library when the evening paper brings you the complete details of Errol Flynn's latest romance or Chaplin's misadventures...